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Abnormal Psychology (PSY404)
(Semester Spring 2009)
Quiz 02 Total Marks 10

Select the most suitable options from the choices given:

1. Which of the following are microscopic units of DNA that carry information
about heredity?
Genes
Chromosomes
Soma
Microbes

2. Which of the following processes sound and smell, regulates emotions, and is
involved in some aspects of learning, memory, and language?
Frontal lobe
Parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
Occipital lobe
SR
3. A dangerous situation produces fear in a person without any prior learning. The
fear reaction in this situation is the:
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
U
Conditioned response (CR)
Unconditioned response (UCR)
V

4. Counselors try hard to understand the problems of their patients by using their
patient’s frame of reference. This is an example of:
Apathy
Empathy
Sympathy
Affection

5. Independent judges, who are observing Saira’s behavior, come to the same
conclusion. This kind of reliability which evaluates the agreement between two
people administering the same test is known as:

Test Retest reliability

Internal consistency reliability
Inter rater reliability
Split half reliability

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Abnormal Psychology (PSY404)
(Semester Spring 2009)
Quiz 02 Total Marks 10

6. Which of the following is not validity in the real sense? It simply conveys that the
test and its items should appear making sense to the test taker.

Face validity
Criterion
Content validity
Construct validity

7. Psychologists use ________________ to classify psychological disorders.

The categorical approach

Dimensional approach
Prototypical approach
All of the given options

8. Which of the following is defined as the simultaneous appearance of two or more

disorders in the same person?
SR
Reactivity
Comorbidity
Reaction formation
Reaction
U

9. Which of the following is concerned with factors that contribute to the onset of
the disorder?
V

Etiological validity
Concurrent validity
Predictive validity
Content Validity

10. The MMPI not only diagnoses a person on ten clinical scales it also detects
sources of invalidities like lying, carelessness, defensiveness on part of:
Respondent
Researcher
Confederate
Experimenter

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